Oh, sure, Boromir is the cornerstone of the most broken deck on the block, and he's amazing, but that's as much about how broken Gondorian Fire / Blood of Númenor / Steward of Gondor are as Boromir himself. Aragorn combines a fantastic global debuff with an incredibly powerful triggered ability. Mablung can reliably net two resources a turn, (and, with a bit of work, three or more), in a sphere that has no other built-in means of accelerating its economy. And with a threat three full points lower than any other Tactics hero, Merry occupies a deckbuilding space all by himself.

And when I say "unlimited", I mean unlimited. While recursion in this game is mostly limited to a series of rare one-off events, Háma's ability is endlessly repeatable. If you pair him with an Elven-light and some Spirit resources, that becomes literally endless; you could have a game that lasted a million rounds and Háma could enable you to play the same Tactics event in every single one of them.

And he hardly sacrifices everything to get such an amazing ability. He ties for the second-best attack of any hero and the second-lowest threat in the sphere. His Rohan trait isn't quite Silvan, but it's still one of the more useful, more-synergized ones on the block.

Usually, the "top-tier" heroes are the ones who give you more cards, more resources, or more actions. Háma doesn't fit in any of those three major archetypes, mostly because he's an archetype to himself. There is no "infinite recursion" bucket, there is only Háma. He doesn't just make existing decks run better, he enables decks that couldn't exist without him. I'm not sure if he's the best Tactics hero, per se. But he's far and away my favorite.

Completely agree. He's one of my favorite heroes to build around because he allows all kinds of funny business. Even in a mono-tactics deck, he can recycle Foe-hammer to keep your hand filled to use his recursion. Or team him up with ally Legolas.
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AdmiralACF334/29/16

Does anyone play him anymore? We ignore errata and just for break the game so he gets decent table time with us. Curious if anyone finds a use for him or if Book of Eldacar is the better bet without taking up a hero slot.
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Christian_Medic4797/21/19

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